Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

Darren Weinstock, '98
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You like your major, but you're concerned about your prospects after graduation. Rather than change your major, add a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) minor.

Listed below are examples of ways GIS can be used to explore a variety of issues and problems:

Identify voting patterns
Document historic development
Track fracture orientation
Assess parking on campus
Create general reference maps
Model elevation
Explore social issues
Study pesticide use
View relative location
Evaluate land use/land cover
Track crime
Map land use

Students in the GIS program

Congratulations to Environmental Sciences Major, Ryan Hollamby!
Winner of the 2009 Award for Spatial Studies

Questions?
E-mail the GIS Coordinator, Ann Deakin